It's wierd because the barrier to not have that in is so low, you can just tack on 'talk like me not AI, dont use em dashes, don't use formulaic structures, be concice' and itll get rid of half of those signals.

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homebrewer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is how you get precious takes like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322362

> First impression: I need to dive into this hackernews reply mockup thing thoroughly without any fluff or self-promotion. My persona should be ..., energetic with health/tech insights but casual and relatable.

> Looking at the constraints: short, punchy between 50-80 characters total—probably multiple one-sentence paragraphs here to fit that brevity while keeping it engaging.

> User specified avoiding "Hey" or "absolutely."

Lots more in its other comments (you need [showdead] on).

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pyth0 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't understand why someone would go through the effort to prompt that when the comments it suggested are total garbage, and it seems like would take similar effort to produce a low quality human written comment.

	▲	Vitamin_Sushi 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If I had to guess, it's probably an attempt to automate karma farming over time to make an account look legit later on.

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montroser 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't give these subnormals any ideas!